There are many areas where we can appreciate Kuyper’s criticism of culture. One of those areas is his interaction between science and theology, and more specifically, science with biblical revelation. Kuyper debated evolution in his 1899 rectoral oration at the Free University of Amsterdam. He criticized a series of features of Darwin’s theory of evolution. These objections include the theory’s features of naturalism, its mechanistic understanding of the world, its atheistic worldview, and its a-teleological characteristic. Without a doubt, the theory of evolution has been one of the most controversial topics for modern Christians. Kuyper’s article ‘evolution’ not only shows …

James Bratt’s following words could summarize one of the goals Abraham Kuyper achieved as a Christian thinker. Kuyper “upgrade[d] Calvinism from an old dogma to an active life, to put Modernist methods to orthodox ends, and to redefine the church to make it fit, and challenge, the contemporary world” (p. 42). I concur. However, how did Kuyper do it in theoretical terms? In trying to answer the former question, I will look to another Bratt’s work on Kuyper. One of the issues that emerges from the chapters “Modernism” and “Conservatism & Orthodoxy” in James Bratt’s Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader is …